Recent media coverage has raised questions about the status of a Danish government pilot project involving Collabora Office. We would like to provide some background, clarify what happened, and share our perspective on the continued work towards digital sovereignty in Denmark. A successful first step towards greater freedom of choice In 2025, the Danish […]
My guess is that collabora does support ms document formats like docx, but doesn’t natively support all the features/specifications. E.g. complex layouts in word documents may fail, media may not play from PowerPoint, complex excel formulas may fail to import or not run as expected.
However word can open opendocument formats docs, though I’m unsure about the entire suite. It may be that Microsoft programs support those files better than collabora supports native Microsoft formats, so that’s what they’re currently using
Yes, Microsoft Office is purposely designed to confound interoperability. Embrace, extend, exterminate.